Coaches' Workshop on Working the Professional Learning Community
5/19/2010
5 Hours, 30 Minutes
Sullivan Conference Room, AIU Central Office
475 E Waterfront Dr
Homestead, PA 15120
Meeting called by:
Chris Hausammann (PIIC Mentor) and Kevin Conner (PAIU TIM)
Type of meeting:
Cooperative, co-constructed learning workshop
Facilitator:
Various
Attendees:
District instructional coaches, CFF coaches, EETT coaches
Please bring:
Laptop computers
Agenda topics:
30 (8:30-9:00)
Registration & Networking (Contact List)
60 (9:00-10:00)
Status Check/Sharing (Personal Best Wallwisher) Please Do Now (respond to this point by Jim Knight in the Coaches' Chat Room): "...for teachers to abandon an old teaching practice to embrace a new one, coaches must offer a practice that is both more powerful and easier to use than the current strategy....Thus, one of a site-based coach's primary tasks is to do everything possible to make it easier for teachers to implement new teaching practices. Coaches highlight, simplify, and clarify practices described in teacher manuals, prepare materials, make copies or handouts if necessary, model in the teachers' classroom, observe teachers, and provide feedback."--Jim Knight, "5 Key Points to Building a Coaching Program" in NSDC's Journal of Staff Development 28(1), Winter 2007 How does something you've done recently affirm or challenge Knight's description of a coach?
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Notes and handouts from May meeting.
5/19/2010
5 Hours, 30 Minutes
Sullivan Conference Room, AIU Central Office
475 E Waterfront Dr
Homestead, PA 15120
Please Do Now (respond to this point by Jim Knight in the Coaches' Chat Room): "...for teachers to abandon an old teaching practice to embrace a new one, coaches must offer a practice that is both more powerful and easier to use than the current strategy....Thus, one of a site-based coach's primary tasks is to do everything possible to make it easier for teachers to implement new teaching practices. Coaches highlight, simplify, and clarify practices described in teacher manuals, prepare materials, make copies or handouts if necessary, model in the teachers' classroom, observe teachers, and provide feedback."--Jim Knight, "5 Key Points to Building a Coaching Program" in NSDC's Journal of Staff Development 28(1), Winter 2007
How does something you've done recently affirm or challenge Knight's description of a coach?
http://www.nsrfharmony.org/protocol/doc/networking.pdf